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The benefits of college athletic success : an application of the propensity score design

Anderson, Michael L. - In: The review of economics and statistics 99 (2017) 1, pp. 119-134

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College Sports Inc : How Commercialism Influences Intercollegiate Athletics

Jozsa, Frank P. - 2013

: Sports Finance.- Chapter 4: Coaches Compensation -- Chapter 5: Student-Athletes Environment -- Chapter 6: Campus Facilities ….- Chapter 7: College Sports Business.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.- Appendix.- Bibliography … their sports programs from local, regional and national businesses, and from other private donors, groups, and organizations …

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Estimated costs of injuries in college and high school female sports

Fair, Ray C.; Champa, Christopher - 2019

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - 2012

Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...

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Measuring grade inflation and grade divergence accounting for student quality

Matos Díaz, Horacio - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-15

This study uses a rich longitudinal data-set of 13,202 full-time students belonging to 11 cohorts over 22 consecutive semesters (Fall 1995 to Spring 2006) to model the determinants of the grade inflation rates prevailing at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón. The following new interesting...

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The management of diversity in US and German higher education

Langholz, Marlene - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 3, pp. 207-226

The research on diversity and diversity management in German organisations has significantly gained relevance over the last years. The reasons for this are socio-political and economic changes that make diversity a highly relevant topic. In higher education, there is currently much discussion on...

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Pre-College Human Capital Investments and Affirmative Action : A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions

Bodoh-Creed, Aaron - 2017

We study a structural model of college admissions framed as a contest between a continuum of students for enrollment in a continuum of colleges where the contest outcome is decided by the students' choice of human capital (HC). Students have private information about their learning costs, and...

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Universities as Firms : The Case of U.S. Overseas Programs

Kim, E. Han - 2013

We observe two waves of overseas programs offered by U.S. universities: A supply driven wave in the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, and a current wave beginning in the early 2000s, with distinctly different players. We compile a comprehensive dataset on overseas degree programs and host country...

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Redesigning U.S. Intercollegiate Athletics to Better Conform with UNESCO’s Best Practices in Student Affairs

Edelman, Marc - 2019

athletics departments based on UNESCO sports-specific criteria.Finally, Part IV proposes a reasonable means to reform … intercollegiate sports in the United States. Specifically, the proposal calls for a bifurcated reform of collegiate sports in the U ….S., with a small number of revenue-generating colleges, in a small number of sports, adopting a commercial sports business …

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Student Attitudes Toward Campus Diversity at the United States Naval Academy : Evidence from Conjoint Survey Experiments

Polga-Hecimovich, John; Carey, John M.; Horiuchi, Yusaku - 2021

Although the value of diversity — in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status —to the U.S. military has been subject to debate, preferences for diversity at educational institutions for the military officers are rarely examined systematically. To address this, we...

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